The two artists selected by Photo Elysée for FUTURES in 2023 are Tamara Janes and Florian Amoser. On the basis of their age, they could both be seen to be beyond the category of emerging artists, however, they have had lives beforehand - Janes as an art director and Amoser as an architect. It is interesting to mention this fact for two reasons that are relevant to our choice on a meta-level. First, it reflects a general sociological fact that is representative of the arts field today: that of the hybridity of creative professions as well as lifelong learning practices, and second, these previous lives - at least from our perspective - have influenced their attitudes and methods.

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Although the results of their work are very different, both aesthetically and philosophically, there are similarities in the way they frame their mission. Both approach their work as long-term processes of artistic research, and for both the apparatus of the camera, as a technological determining factor, and the dispositive, as an important presentational framing device for the perception of images, are important elements. Based on these notions, both could be characterized as "imagineers" in that they consciously question, reconstruct and engineer both the production and perception of images.